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Attitudes of people working in mental health non-governmental organisations in Australia: A comparison with other mental health professionals

Overview of attention for article published in Health Psychology Open, April 2018
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Title
Attitudes of people working in mental health non-governmental organisations in Australia: A comparison with other mental health professionals
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Health Psychology Open, April 2018
DOI 10.1177/2055102918765413
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Grenville Rose, Courtney von Hippel, Loren Brener, Bill von Hippel

Abstract

Research suggests that stigma impacts help-seeking behaviour and health outcomes for people affected by mental illness. This study compared the attitudes of Australian non-governmental organisation support workers towards people with mental illness with those of other health professionals. Three hundred and seventy four support workers were randomly allocated to answer questions about one of the six vignettes. Results indicated that non-governmental organisation support workers held more positive attitudes towards people with mental illness than those of general practitioners, psychiatrists and psychologists measured in prior research. These results suggest that non-governmental organisations may be a more positive and comfortable entry and referral point for mental health clients.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 25 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 7 28%
Student > Doctoral Student 2 8%
Librarian 2 8%
Researcher 2 8%
Student > Master 1 4%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 11 44%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Nursing and Health Professions 5 20%
Psychology 5 20%
Social Sciences 2 8%
Arts and Humanities 1 4%
Business, Management and Accounting 1 4%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 11 44%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 19 June 2018.
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#15,175,718
of 25,382,440 outputs
Outputs from Health Psychology Open
#122
of 238 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#181,683
of 342,873 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Health Psychology Open
#7
of 8 outputs
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